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So. There's been discussion about a certain nondescript corner on Artemis' Introduction thread, so here's the corner. Pretty much a place where we talk about random things.
submitted by Gollum
(March 31, 2013 - 5:13 pm)
(March 31, 2013 - 5:13 pm)
We need another random thing to talk about: Censored cartoons!
Many old cartoons from the 1940s and 50s have been censored, most famously Warner Bros. cartoons. Like the ones with Bugs Bunny. The most famous (or rather, infamous) of these are the CENSORED ELEVEN.
Those eleven toons were never, and to this day, never have been, aired on television or distributed on home video. They were cut due to mostly racial stereotypes. Those aired but edited have usually been cut due to similar stereotypes, as well as violence and risque humor and such. When they began airing the Looney Tunes cartoons on TV, they were targeting them to kids, and naturally couldn't let kids watch such stuff.
The Censored Eleven, however... I've seen just one of the one-one, All This and Rabbit Stew. This Bugs Bunny toon depicted the wascally wabbit not hunted by Elmer Fudd or Porky Pig, but by a very racist African-American hunter who Bugs bests by winning all his clothes in a dice game at the end of the cartoon. This cartoon can be seen in very faded, poor quality on the Net.
My favorite cartoon, which has been only edited on television and is distributed uncut through the Looney Tunes Golden Collection volume two, is titled Show Biz Bugs. The cartoon centers around Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny performing together at a theater, when Daffy, jealous of Bugs' popularity, repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempts to outdo the rabbit. At the end, fed up with Bugs and his failures to get the audience to love him, Daffy consumes nitroglycerine, gunpowder, Uranium 2-38, among other dangerous substances, concluding by "shaking well" and swallowing a lighted match. This causes him to blow up. Following this outrageously funny (in my opinion) act, the audience loves it, but Daffy says as he ascends to heaven as a ghost: "I can only do it once!"
That fabulous ending was cut from being aired on television for fears that children might attempt to imitate Daffy's spectactular explosion.
What does everyone have to say on this subject?
I agree with not airing racist and/or overly violent cartoons. There are plenty of other entertaining themes.
Admin
(April 5, 2013 - 8:05 pm)
@Admin: I agree, but these cartoons are still entertaining in a way, partially because they're so interesting. You know that they would not do it today, and it (presuming that you're old enough not to be badly influenced by the toons) provokes interest in why they did it then. The several racial stereotypes and jokes about Japanese people in WB cartoons came around mostly becuase of the fact that many of them were made in an era surrounding WWII.
And, has anyone seen Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Terrific movie. It does have a trace of this sort of humor, with about 97% of the violence and racism toned down. I think I'm the only person I know who has ever noticed that. That reason is why Disney, co-producers and distributers of the film, chose to distribute it under their Touchstone Pictures banner, which is associated with more adult-ish movies, rather than their typical Disney pictures banner. That small trace is a tiny bit of what makes the film so enjoyable. Plus some EXCELLENT animation and a very nice, interesting, noir-spoofy plot.
And Daffy Duck and Donald Duck's cameo together.
And an appreciation of conventional slapstick.
(April 5, 2013 - 9:11 pm)
I have seen WHO FRAMED ROGER RABIT, and I'm sorry, but I did not understand it at all. It was... weird in a way I didn't understand.
(April 22, 2013 - 7:22 pm)
(Note on location: Bulbapedia is the name of the website that serves as the Pokemon encyclopedia. It's an extremely useful site.)
There have been several banned Pokemon episodes. For a variety of reasons. One, Episode 38 was banned because kids were being rushed to the hospital. Literally. There were a bunch a flashing lights and 685 kids nearly had seizures. It wasn't aired anymore after that. Episode 40 was also never aired because of the fuss over Episode 38. Another was banned because it involved earthquakes and the week before there were really bad earthquakes in the Niigata prefecture.
The other episodes were mostly just banned in America. One was banned for just being innappropriate (I won't go into it), one was banned because it had guns in it (they were in a giant safari at the time, so some of the rangers had guns for protection), and two were banned because they had the Pokemon Jynx in them. Jynx look a lot like real humans and the Jynx used to have a really dark skin color. Nowadays, they have purple skin.
America also banned two episodes temporarily after 9/11. One of them was because it involved several buildings being destoyed by a giant angry Pokemon and the other... I actually have no clue why. This episode is called the Tower of Terror (it's called that because a lot of Ghost Pokemon live there. So it's haunted.) and nothing really bad happens. Ash goes into the tower, catches a Pokemon, and leaves.
South Korea banned a bunch of episodes for a variety of reasons, and a couple of other episodes have been banned temporarily. Often this has to do with a natural disaster in the episode (or an aritficial disaster. Team Rocket likes blowing up cliffs and causing rock slides. Also, big Pokemon are always causing havoc.) that happens around the same time as a Japanese disaster. Oh, and one was accidentally skipped in New Zeland for no reason.
(April 6, 2013 - 2:09 pm)
@Corner: Are you Ruby?
(April 6, 2013 - 2:20 pm)
Of course no- yes. Yes I am.
(April 6, 2013 - 4:19 pm)
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(April 8, 2013 - 4:34 pm)
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(April 19, 2013 - 3:05 pm)